Under the evening sun, a biker uses the paths along the Santa Cruz River Park on April 23, 2020, as temperatures rose above 90-degrees. The temperature in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ hit 100 degrees on April 29.
April 29, 2020
ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ experienced its first 100-degree day of 2020 on Wednesday, the National Weather Service reported.
The temperature hit triple-digits in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ at 2:47 p.m. Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service, making it the fifth-earliest 100-degree day on record for the Old Pueblo.
From 1895 to 2019, on average, the first 100-degree day in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ has been May 25.
The earliest 100-degree day in the last 10 years and the last time ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ had triple-digit temperatures in April was in 2012, on April 22.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, the latest first-time triple-digit occurrence on record is June 22, 1905.
Last year’s first 100-degree day came later than average, June 9, but every day after that in June was a day of triple-digit temperatures.
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Jim Meyer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, told the Star earlier this week that it is difficult to predict whether an earlier first 100-degree day will lead to a hotter-than-average summer.
“It’s almost like nature tries to make up for it and balance things out,†Meyer said. “If you start out early with your 100-degree days you do have a better chance of having more above-average numbers of 100-degree days, but I don’t know, a lot of times it just seems like somewhere along the line, it just balances back out again.â€
An excessive heat warning has been issued for the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ area for Thursday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The high temperature could range from 100 to 107 degrees, the Weather Service said.
